Ji Yan saw Jiang Wanru's door open, she smiled and stood outside the door, softly calling: "Miss?" Inside, Jiang Wanru was standing by the window, holding a small mirror, admiring her hair. Hearing Ji Yan's call, she smiled and said: "Come in, help me take a look at my hair in the back, is it all neatly combed?" Ji Yan smiled and went in, turned around the screen behind, and saw Jiang Wanru by the window, holding a small mirror, left and right admiring her own hair.

  Jiang Wanru saw Jiyu enter the room, put down the mirror in her hand, and carefully examined Jiyu's eyes. She smiled and said: "Jiyu, your hair is well-groomed today, it makes you look lively and charming. Your current hairstyle is even better than mine." Jiyu looked up at Jiang Wanru, who had grown into a young girl, and saw the faint smile on her face. She walked around Jiang Wanru in a circle, seeing that her hair was tied with a wooden hairpin on top of her head, and the back of her hair was divided into two braids, falling on both shoulders.

  "After a glance, she let out a soft sigh and said: 'Miss, you can obviously style your hair to look even better, but you always think it's a bother and like to do it this way. Now you're again praising me for this hairstyle, which is actually the one you helped me with yesterday. This morning I just tidied up the messy parts in the back, and now it's become my achievement in your eyes.'"

  Jiang Wanru smiled as she listened, reaching out to gently tap Jiyan's hairpin and saying: "Well said, now you're getting better at speaking, talking to me in such an orderly and logical manner. I'm praising the little braids behind your head, which look especially lively and elegant after being tidied up by your skilled hands." Jiyan touched her small braids behind her back, looking a bit red-faced as she asked Jiang Wanru: "Miss, the braid you helped me tie came undone after sleeping for one night. I woke up early today and thought I'd take some time to tidy up my hair in the back, and since I had some free time, I wove many braids with my hands. Does it really look good like this?"

  Jiang Wanru nodded definitely and said, "Good-looking. Otherwise, how would I praise you for making progress and knowing how to change flexibly?" Ji Yan was delighted and smiled again, saying: "I tied my hair in braids, won't it look too thin?" Jiang Wanru smiled and looked at the countless small braids behind Ji Yan's head, shaking her head lightly and saying: "No, it's hard for our Ji Yan to personally braid her own hair, and the braids are fine and tidy without any messy hair." Jiang Wanru teased Ji Yan with a smile.

  These years, Jiang Wanmu would help Ji Yan tidy up her hair every few days. Each time, she would give Ji Yan a new hairstyle and play with different styles on her head. The people in the Jiang family now all know that Ji Yan's mother is skilled at hairstyling, often dressing up her daughter to be as lovely as a flower. Only Jiang Wanmu and Ji Yan knew that these years, Ji Yan's mother had rarely helped her daughter with her hair, but instead had to help tidy up the hair of people who came from afar.

  Jiang Wanru picked up the small mirror and casually stuffed it under the bed. She remembered Fang Zheng sneaking over last night, standing at the gate of the courtyard, and hastily saying something. She turned her head to Ji Yan and said: "Ji Yan, remember to clean up the things you've hidden in your room." Ji Yan nodded, speaking in a low voice: "Miss, yesterday, the people who came into our courtyard... what did they come here looking for?" Jiang Wanru walked towards the screen, casually asking Ji Yan: "Did you hear anything when you went out this morning? Who came to our courtyard and how many people were there?"

  Ji Yan followed Jiang Wanruo around the screen and saw her sitting elegantly at the table, drinking water with poise. Ji Yan stood beside her, gazing out through the open door to the beautifully decorated courtyard gate, saying in a soft voice: "Yesterday, Big Miss and Second Miss returned to the manor because Big Miss had good news, especially coming back to report it to the family. Second Miss was overjoyed upon hearing the news and followed to share in the joy."

  The big miss and the second miss had people serving them who had never been to our house before. After they entered the mansion, they got lost while walking around and accidentally walked into our courtyard, and then into my room which I hadn't locked properly." Jiang Wan heard this reason and couldn't help but laugh. She thought it was strange that her courtyard was so secluded, if someone didn't intentionally come in, how could they get lost here? Fortunately, she had locked the door when she left yesterday. She looked at Jiyuan and asked: "Is anything missing from your room? Which places did they rummage through?"

  Miss, after your brother came last night, I carefully observed that they had rummaged through my room. Fortunately, I listened to you and hid the small mirror in the corner of my clothes box, and also put the hairpin you gave me in the pocket of my winter coat. My bed quilt was opened by someone, I'm used to folding it neatly, with a complete flower pattern on the edge, but now the edge doesn't have a flower and the quilt is not folded neatly.

  She said with a look of disdain, thinking it was extremely unfair: "Miss, the older girls in our family all have their own allowance, now the fifth miss has her own allowance every month, but you don't. How can they not be suspicious? They actually sent someone to search my room, what do they think they'll find in my room?"

  Jiang Wanru sighed slightly upon hearing Ji Yan's words, and thought to herself that she wouldn't bother with the matter of the monthly allowance. After all, even if she made a fuss about it now, it would only be a temporary commotion, and in the end, they still wouldn't give her anything. It was better to pretend she didn't know about this matter and let the Jiang family people gradually lose interest. What she hadn't expected was that despite her tolerance reaching this point, those two sisters still couldn't trust her. Rarely returning to her natal home once, they actually resorted to using this tactic, having someone investigate the things in her courtyard.

  That year, Jiang Wanru had already made up her mind to make a scene and stop Jiang Wanyi and Jiang Wanying from bullying her under the guise of being sisters. After that incident, both Jiang Wanyi and Jiang Wanying knew that when pushed to the limit, she was capable of doing anything. They were concerned about their own reputation and didn't have the leisure to care about her again.

  Jiang Wan Yi had been married to Lian Zi Mo for several years, and after the marriage, it was said that the couple got along harmoniously. She also got along particularly well with Mrs. Lian. The only bad thing was that she had not become pregnant yet. In these years, Jiang Wan Yi and her husband would return to the Jiang family several times a year. Jiang Wan Yu had never met them before, but one time, she heard her mother mention casually, "This time when Eldest Miss came back, her skin looked so fair and tender. Her husband must have been treating her very well."

  Jiang Wanru had long understood that the Jiang family treated her like a stranger, as if they wished she didn't exist in this world. Now they tolerated her existence only because the Jiang family couldn't afford to lose face in front of others and had to consider the gaze of the public. The Jiang family continued to provide for her basic needs, but otherwise left her to fend for herself.

  But Jiang Wanru had been thinking of ways to get out, and inquiring about the laws and regulations of the Ning dynasty regarding this aspect. She was disappointed to learn that for someone like her, she could not escape the Jiang family whether she lived or died, unless she got married and the couple's relationship was bad, and she was divorced or they mutually separated, only then could she gain freedom from both her husband's and her natal family's control.

  Thank you book friend Amanda Mis mouse for reminding me of the mistakes in the previous chapter, thank you again and again.